IT’S HERE!!!! Saturday November 20th @ 8:30 pm! “A charity race for freedom from want”. Need more incentive? More information? This is the fourth Cranksgiving (obviously with the IV). This “event” 100% DIRECTLY benefits the Homeless Action Network of Albany. How does it work? You meet other like minded cyclists that want to give back […]
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Oh it’s been a week of strange dreams… I have found myself in this strange rotation of trying to drop weight. That in itself isn’t strange, but I run all day on just coffee, then have one monster meal at night, almost falling asleep from ‘food coma’. And that’s when the strange begins. Actually the […]
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Have you ever noticed, you never realize how many people drive a particular car, until you buy one? Maybe that’s not the best example. What I do need to say is sorry. Sorry to all of the people I know that have had an “accident” while cycling. You have told me the horror story of […]
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It is Labor Day, and I am far away in Houston, Texas, a place that is not on Bicycling Magazine’s Top 50 Bike Friendly Cities. Neither is Albany, but we just took a small step up. We now have sharrows on Delaware Avenue. According to several Internet sites, including the always authoritative Wikipedia, a sharrow is […]
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If there was anything gained from several years in the Boy Scouts besides hazing fellow scouts, trying to remember how to tie a variety of knots, and creating the kind of mischief that drove Scout Masters to quit……it was…. BE PREPARED! A brief look back at all the stupid things I’ve learned over the years […]
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Sometimes the easiest way to figure out where you are, is to go somewhere else. After testing my mortality, I realized there were alot of things I need to take care of. A major item to check off was getting to the northwest and visiting with new found family, that I’ve never met. For […]
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I have noticed from previous posts that drivers and pedestrians occasionally read and comment on this blog. They have every right to do so and I like to hear what they have to say. What I have learned from their comments, and their behavior on the streets of Albany, is that there is much about […]
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I realize that the City of Albany has a Plan which seeks to incorporate bicycles within its commuting traffic. However, a plan is merely a statement of intent. Its completion is necessarily a future event. New York’s capital could ultimately either look like modern Amsterdam, a bike commuting utopia, or we could return to the […]
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Two years ago I did not ride a bike. I did not own a bike. I had neither owned nor regularly ridden a bike since college, 30 years ago. My lack of a bicycle had nothing to do with an aversion to exercise. I ran several marathons and dozens of other foot races. I climbed […]
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The stated objective, or charge if you will, at the time I signed on to write for this blog was “…to humanize cyclists and to increase awareness and advocacy for cycling generally so fewer of us are run over by cars…” Or something like that. But every time I attempt to pen something that opens […]
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